The Thomas A. Edison Papers Digital Edition

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These letters, telegrams, and postcards from Mina Miller Edison to her youngest son, Theodore, cover the years 1910, 1912, and 1914. Most of them were written while Mina was visiting her family at Oak Place in Akron, Ohio. The letters from 1912 include comments on the declining health of Mina's mother, Mary Valinda Miller, who passed away on October 19, 1912. Also included is a letter from May 1912, written from Washington, D.C., and a postcard from Detroit, Michigan, sent in October 1914 while Mina and Thomas Edison were on a vacation in the Midwest. Two other letters were written on a moving train. Most of the letters contain references to Thomas Edison. Also included are several references to the Edison Works Monthly, a magazine started by Theodore in September 1912. One letter from 1914 suggests that Theodore use the magazine to comment on the European war and President Wilson's policies toward Mexico.